Sunday, May 27, 2012

Last year New York Times columnist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman called for space aliens to invade earth so that the government would spend money to mount a defense thereby stimulating the economy.

PAUL KRUGMAN, NEW YORK TIMES: This is hard to get people to do, much better, obviously, to build bridges and roads and healthcare clinics and schools. But my proposed, I actually have a serious proposal which is that we have to get a bunch of scientists to tell us that we're facing a threatened alien invasion, and in order to be prepared for that alien invasion we have to do things like build high-speed rail. And the, once we've recovered, we can say, “Look, there were no aliens.”

This isn't crazy ol' STORMBRINGER speaking here; this is a Nobel Prize laureate, people. Credentialled Liberal aristocracy - it doesn't get any higher. If I question Darwinism, or speak out against abortion, or gay marriage, or call out a slut/whore as a slut and a whore - all positions backed up by the Bible, by the way - then I'm an intolerant ultra-right wing Tea Party nut case. This guy seriously suggests a government massive-spending scheme involving a make-believe space alien invasion and the New York Times gives him a platform.

3 comments:

This is standard Left-Wing stuff. Create a false crisis, then get government to "fix" it. At taxpayer expense. To "give" us what our "betters" think we "need". That is, to drive us headlong into Socialism and/or Statism. This tactic has been used quite deftly through the War on Poverty, various environmental "crises" (and the overuse of "quotation marks").

A couple of thoughts:Why such an outlandish claim...aliens?!!?!! Really?!?!!? Who is really going to believe such a far out scenario?Also, ANOTHER reason why we can't just get rid of the head of the snake....we have to purge the halls of the elite!!!!